Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Heliar 15 comments/ film spacing
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:04:46 -0500

Both my 21 SAs do the same. The light leaves the rear element at such a
steep angle that it shines in under the edges of the film aperture. If the
back of the 15 extends well into the camera, I assume this is the reason.

Ken Wilcox

At 2:56 -0400 2/19/0, a fine scholar, Bob Keene/Karen Shehade wrote:

>One thing I've noticed about shooting with the 15 Heliar on my Tower/Nicca
>5L... looking at the contact sheets it's apparent that the coverage is so
>great that there is very little space between frame edges on the
>negatives... the 15 actually produces more image sapce on the film, so
>instead of, say, an 1/8th of an inch between frames, one is left with only
>1/16th of an inch (approximate guestimate). At first I thought my newly
>CLA'd Nicca had to go back to the shop because of a film advance problem,
>but I looked closer and saw that the spacing was'normal' where I'd used a
>50 or 35 lens.
>Makes cutting the negatives abit of a challenge. I haven't run film through
>an M6 or M2 with the Helair, anybody else notice this?
>
>Bob (my God! The Helair is taking up ALL the room on the FILM!!) Keene


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